Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.

There's a lot of anti-Semitism, and it's not just against the Jewish.

Violence and racism are bad. Whenever they occur they are to be condemned and we should not turn a blind eye to them.

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought stages that your character went through, but you sort of do it with Tourette's. So I end up often crying when I'm crying, and looking angry when I'm looking angry, so it's pretty ugly.

I think when something is apolitical and it gets politicised, then it's incredibly disappointing.

Inquiry and curiosity is really important in any profession, but definitely in what I do. And in parallel you also need to be confident enough to try things. So it's a tricky thing sometimes to balance those two states.

I think when you fall in love, whether you're heterosexual, transgender, gay, lesbian, whatever, straight, you feel like it's happening to you for the first time.